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Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (* 4. August 1941 in New York City ) ist ein US-amerikanischer buddhistischer Autor, einer der bekanntesten akademischen Vertreter des Buddhismus in den USA. Er ist Je-Tsong-Khapa -Professor für Indo-Tibetische Buddhistische Studien an der Columbia University .
Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo- Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University , before retiring in June 2019. [1]
Bob Thurman, known in the academic circles as Professor Robert A.F. Thurman, is a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings and the first Westerner Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Biography. Robert Thurman held the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, before retiring in June of 2019. Educated at Philips Exeter and Harvard, he then studied Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, and Asian languages and histories for fifty years with many teachers, including His ...
Robert A.F. Thurman lives to make the peaceful teachings of the Buddha interesting and meaningful to people from all over the world. Working at Columbia Univ...
Why you should listen. Tenzin Robert Thurman became a Tibetan monk at age 24. He's a professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies at Columbia University, and co-founder of Tibet House US, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization. Thurman's focus is on the balance between inner insight and cultural harmony.
Bob in 1946. Bob as Troilus, Harvard Loeb Theater in 1959. With his first daughter Taya Thurman in 1959. As a student of Geshe Ngawang Wangyal with Jeffry Hopkins, and Christopher George in 1960. Bob as a new Buddhist monk, ordained by the Dalai Lama in 1964. With Grandpa Preston in 1966. Bob and Nena von Schlebrügge at their wedding in 1967 ...
